Combination-tool.



" 'No. 738,753. PATENTED SEP'I. 15,1903- R; A. BAGGETT.

- COMBINATION T0 APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2 a.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 1.5, 1903.

ROFERT AMOS BAGGETT, OF BELTON, TEXAS.

COM BlNATlON-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 738,753, datedSeptember 15, 1903.

Application filed March 20, 1903. Serial No. 148,771- (No model.)

Tool, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to implements adapted for opening barrels, boxes,and similar closures, and which-may also be employed for stretchingWires and driving or removing staples in constructing or repairing Wirefences and for other purposes, and has for its object to simplify andimprove devices of this character and increase the efficiency andusefulness without increasing the weight or expense.

, The invention consists in certain novel featuresof construction,'ashereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claim.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, in which correspondingparts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is aperspective view of the improved implement. Fig. 2 is a viewillustrating the manner of using the implement in drawing large nails.Fig. 3 represents the manner of employing the implement in drawing smallnails or tacks. Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the manner of employing theimplement as a wire-stretcher.

The improved implement consists of a stock or handle of anyapprovedlength or size, terminating in a chisel-point 11, inlongitudinal alinement with the handle and preferably formed with aV-shaped cleft 12 to enable this portion of the implement to be employedfor pulling tacks and small nails and also to start the staples securingthe wires of fences and for other similar purposes. Extending from oneside of the handle 10 and spaced from the chisel end 11 is abackwardly-curved combined nail-pulling claw and wedge 13, the clawportion indicated at 14 and with spaced wedge-chisel-formed portions 15upon eachjside, as shown, said divided chisel end being turnedbackwardly and lying in a plane parallel with the plane occupied by the.stockor handle member 10 to adapt the tool to be used as awire-stretcher.

Extending from the handle 10 on the opposite side from the nail-clawmember 13 is a hammer face or lug 16 of any approved size.

WVith this implement many different kinds of work may be performed. Forinstance, the chisel end 11 may be driven between a box cover and thebody of thebox and the back side of the claw 13 utilized as a fulcrum toassist the operator in prying off the cover.

The chisel-point, with its cleft 12, will be found very convenient inremoving the barrel-linings or clime-hoops in opening bar= rels andremoving the nails therefrom. The chisel-point 11, with its cleft 12,will also be found very convenient in drawing small nails or tacks, thehammer-face serving as a fulcrum when the implement is thus employed,

as shown in Fig. 3.

The claw member 13 will be found very efficient in drawing larger nails,and when thus employed the chisel-point 11 serves as a fulcrum togreatly increase the draft and prevent the bending of the nails, asillus= trated in Fig. 2.- v

When employed as abarbed-wire stretcher, the chisel-point will be placedagainst-the side of the post (indicated at 17 in Fig. 4) and with thecleft 1 1 in the rear of the nearest barb 18 on the wire 19. Then usingthe implement as a lever, the wire may be stretched to any desireddegree and secured by staples in the usual manner, the peculiar shape ofthe claw member 13 affording a better grip for the nail or wire than theordinary claw.

When employed to stretch Wire not having barbs, the wire can be woundaround the hammenface one or more turns after-passing through the cleft14:, as shown in Fig. 5, to prevent slipping. Thus the implement can beemployed for a variety of purposes, and all the parts coact to producethe desired results. The implement will preferably be constructed in onesingle piece of steel properly tempered and may be of any desired size.

It will be found very convenient and efficient for the purposesdenotedand can be manufactured very cheaply and of. ample strength toresist all strains towhichit will be subjected.

The implement will be found very convenient for grocers and similarmerchants and also for farmers, fence-builders, and all mechanics whoare called upon to perform rough repair-work.

Having thus described my invention, what end thereof extended in a planeparallel with the plane occupied by the stock, said claw 15 member andWedge shaped stock terminal having V-shaped clefts therein opening inthe same direction.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in 20 the presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT AMOS BAGGETT.

Witnesses:

BISMARK HIATT, G. C. RATHER.

